Chapter 549 I Understand, I Understand

On the way to find Concubine Xiao's portrait, Li Xuan couldn't help but think of a lot of the past at that time.

Ever since he was adopted in Jingyang Palace, Concubine Xiao's health has been in poor condition. She always lies in bed and sleeps for a long time every day.

When she wakes up, she stays with Princess Ankang, talking and telling stories with her.

Li Xuan followed and listened to many stories.

Concubine Xiao was the gentlest woman Li Xuan had ever seen. At that time, he thought about how the emperor would be willing to lock such a woman into the cold palace.

It is a pity that Li Xuan and Concubine Xiao passed away within less than half a year.

Li Xuan was rescued by Princess Ankang in a summer rainstorm, while Concubine Xiao fell ill in the autumn and finally passed away in the winter of the same year.

Speaking of which, these things only happened last year, but to Li Xuan they seemed like long-lasting memories.

"When Concubine Xiao sees us now, her spirit in heaven should feel gratified."

Arriving near the Ganlu Hall, Li Xuan calmed down and went to open the window with a straight face.

Climbing through windows is Li Xuan's specialty, especially now that his cultivation level is high, it's so smooth.

Li Xuan silently rolled into the Manna Hall, but ended up bumping into a hard wall.

Even though Li Xuan's bronze head and iron arm were already completed, he was still rolling on the ground in pain with tears in his eyes.

Wang Xi, the eunuch in charge of the lamp of Emperor Yongyuan, looked at Li Xuan rolling on the ground with confusion and asked: "Little guy, isn't it touching porcelain?"

When Li Xuan heard this, his head hurt even more.

Wang Xi is short and stocky. Although he is not young, he looks like a strong old man.

But Li Xuan never expected that his body would be so "hard" to such an absurd degree.

"What kind of evil skills do these old eunuchs practice!?"

Li Xuan cursed in his heart and kept using yin and yang energy to ease his pain.

Wang Xi saw that Li Xuan was pitiful and reached out to lift him up from the ground.

Seeing Li Xuandou's big tears falling down, Wang Xi immediately comforted him:

"Ouch, does it hurt you?"

"Come on, snoring and snoring won't scare me anymore, all the annoying pain will fly away~"

Wang Xi sang children's songs and touched Li Xuan's head.

Not to mention, Li Xuan immediately felt that his head was not as painful as before.

But he suddenly noticed that the yin and yang energy in his body seemed to have undergone subtle changes.

This change was so weak that Li Xuan disappeared before he even noticed it.

Li Xuan wiped his tears and suddenly became curious.

"Strange, something seems wrong."

With Li Xuan's current physical strength, even if he hits the iron plate, the iron plate will be dented, and there is absolutely no reason for his head to hurt.

Even though Wang Xi's physical strength was extremely high, Li Xuan was not that fast when he climbed in through the window just now.

Logically speaking, even if it hit Wang Xi, it wouldn't be so painful.

"Are you influenced by Tao?"

"Hiss, can't this old man's way make people feel pain more easily?"

The more Li Xuan thought about it, the more he became puzzled and puzzled.

Wang was pleased to see that Li Xuan stopped crying, so he smiled and said:

"Axuan, why did you come to open the window of Ganlu Palace?"

"Is this naughty? Or do you have something to come to see His Majesty?"

After Li Xuan hit his head, he became honest and immediately said that he was here to see Emperor Yongyuan.

"Then remember to go through the gate next time. Someone will pick you up when you get to the gate."

Li Xuan didn't dare to make any mistakes, so he nodded obediently.

This casual hit on the head would cause him excruciating pain. Who could bear it?

Anyway, Li Xuan will no longer be skinny.

"Then I will take you to see His Majesty."

Wang Xi didn't pursue it too much and took Li Xuan directly to the Ganlu Hall.

As he went deeper, Wang Xi's silent footsteps slowly began to move, making the sound of his footsteps slowly become louder, making it easier for people to detect.

Li Xuan was carried obediently and soon saw Emperor Yongyuan who was reviewing the memorial.

Emperor Yongyuan heard the footsteps and looked up. He couldn't help but smile when he saw Li Xuan being carried in by Wang Xi.

"Axuan, today's entrance is unusual."

Emperor Yongyuan couldn't help but joke.

Wang Xi also gently placed Li Xuan on the ground.

"Thank you, meow."

Li Xuanchong thanked Wang Xi.

Wang Xi just nodded slightly and then stepped aside.

"What did you come to see me for?"

Emperor Yongyuan asked curiously.

Li Xuan rarely came to Ganlu Hall by himself. Emperor Yongyuan thought that there must be something urgent to allow Li Xuan to come to see him alone, so his expression became much more serious.

Li Xuan was not polite, climbed directly onto Emperor Yongyuan's dragon case, and then started writing with his tail.

After reading what Li Xuan wrote for a while, Emperor Yongyuan's serious expression slowly melted away, and his eyes were full of complexity.

"Has it been...a year?"

Emperor Yongyuan's eyes became empty, and his thoughts wandered to nowhere.

"Ankang has a good heart."

He said that and closed his eyes.

After a while, a picture scroll appeared in his hand.

Li Xuan knew that this was taken out by Emperor Yongyuan from his own Emperor Hong Bone Ring.

Emperor Yongyuan's Emperor Hong Bone Ring is a foot ring, and its performance is better than the feather ring in Li Xuan's hand.

After taking out the scroll, Emperor Yongyuan slowly opened it, first looked at it carefully for a while, and then showed it to Li Xuan.

The scroll shows a gentle and graceful woman, who is smiling gently and looking at the outside of the painting with affectionate eyes.

Li Xuan can recognize that the woman in the painting is Concubine Xiao, but she is much younger than he remembered. It seems that this portrait was left before Concubine Xiao was banished to the cold palace.

"I will lend you this painting."

"Remember to return it to me after Ankang is used up."

Li Xuan cursed Emperor Yongyuan for being stingy, but then his eyes turned and he thought to himself: "If Ankang is not used up, then there is no need to return it, right?"

Thinking of this, Li Xuan looked at Emperor Yongyuan's expression again, and immediately showed a look of understanding.

"He must be embarrassed to give Ankang directly, so he beat around the bush. Fortunately, I was smart and understood what he meant."

"Hehe~"

Li Xuan smiled and felt that he had not been hanging around with the two stewards in vain. Now he is becoming more and more discerning.

Emperor Yongyuan was confused when he saw Li Xuan suddenly laugh.

But in the eyes of Emperor Yongyuan, Li Xuan was a strange and occasionally neurotic cat, so it was not difficult to understand.

"Forget it, after all, it is a good omen for my dynasty."

Emperor Yongyuan was too lazy to investigate, and blinked his eyes and pretended not to see Li Xuan's strangeness.

Li Xuan saw Emperor Yongyuan blinking at him, and this clear indication made him more certain of his thoughts.

"Then let Ankang use this painting well."

Emperor Yongyuan could never have guessed that Li Xuan's little thoughts would actually hit him.

"Nothing else, right?"

Emperor Yongyuan coughed dryly and asked.

Li Xuan nodded, with an "I understand everything" look, which made Emperor Yongyuan confused.

"In that case, don't hinder me from continuing to review the memorials."

Emperor Yongyuan waved his hand and ordered Li Xuan to leave with disdain.

Li Xuan jumped off the dragon table and was about to leave Ganlu Palace, but he heard the voice of Emperor Yongyuan behind him:

"Looking at your appearance just now, were you caught by Wang Xi?"

"Remember to go through the main gate next time, otherwise if you get beaten by someone who doesn't know you, don't blame me for not reminding you."

Li Xuan rolled his eyes. Why did he need Emperor Yongyuan to remind him specifically?

He had suffered a lot from Wang Xi just now, so he would naturally remember this.

Li Xuan shook his tail, said goodbye and left, and was sent out of Ganlu Palace by Wang Xi.

When he returned to Jingyang Palace with the scroll, he found Yu'er was talking to Princess Ankang, and the two girls were fiddling with Princess Ankang's work that only had an outline carved out from time to time.

"Your Highness, Ah Xuan is back."

Yu'er reminded Li Xuan as soon as he entered the room.

He quickly took out the painting that Emperor Yongyuan gave them from the Emperor Hong bone ring.

After Princess Ankang took it, she asked in shock: "Ah Xuan, did you really find the portrait of my mother?"

The two girls couldn't wait to unfold the portrait completely. Seeing the complete portrait on it, they stared blankly and couldn't move their eyes away for a long time.

"Hehe, it's really my mother!"

Princess Ankang suddenly smiled.

"So young and beautiful."

Princess Ankang sighed, this is the appearance of my mother she has never seen before.

Yu'er, who was standing by, looked at the portrait, and her expression was exactly the same as Princess Ankang's.

"Yes, Your Highness."

Yu'er couldn't help but agree.

The two girls looked at it for a long time, but they couldn't see enough.

Yu'er found a shelf and hung the portrait of Concubine Xiao on it for Princess Ankang to watch.

With the portrait, Princess Ankang had the confidence to carve the wooden statue. She held Li Xuan in her arms and continued to work.

Li Xuan didn't doze off. He looked at the portrait and secretly corrected Princess Ankang's mistakes.

Princess Ankang sometimes found that the cat's claws did not follow her wishes, and the result was better. She couldn't help blushing and looked at Li Xuan with an embarrassed smile.

One person and one cat, tacit cooperation, the wooden statue of Concubine Xiao is getting more and more like a picture, and the image in memory is becoming clearer and clearer.

Yu'er was waiting on the side, and she handed them whatever Princess Ankang and Li Xuan needed as soon as possible.

The three little ones talked about the past while working together.

When they mentioned some memories of Concubine Xiao, they smiled more and more, as if Concubine Xiao had never left them and was sitting not far from them.

...

Before Concubine Xiao's death anniversary arrived, the last Imperial Garden Competition of this year arrived first.

Compared with the beginning of the Imperial Garden Competition at the beginning of the year, everyone's enthusiasm had long faded, and they were not interested in the grand prize that had already been decided.

In the annual standings, Princess Ankang was far ahead, not giving others any chance at all.

Even in last month's competition, Princess Ankang won the official competition, but lost the last game of the supplementary competition.

This small defeat made others pay a huge price.

Only the eldest prince and his three siblings were considered winners, and they successfully exchanged their monthly allowance with Princess Ankang, who was the royal silver envoy.

Compared with other people whose monthly allowances were reduced, Qingshu Palace should have the best life now.

Otherwise, the new monthly allowance would not be kept strictly confidential and not leaked to the outside world.

Whenever someone asked them how much the new monthly allowance was, the three siblings were very secretive, just showing a mysterious smile, letting everyone imagine.

But the more the eldest prince and his men acted like this, the more curious everyone became.

Some people even became more and more convinced that Princess Ankang had previously given them a sky-high monthly allowance, and there were constant criticisms behind the scenes, trying to lead the rhythm of Princess Ankang stepping down as the Royal Silver and Money Envoy, but it never caused much trouble.

Everyone with a discerning eye knew that it was impossible to get Princess Ankang to step down as the Royal Silver and Money Envoy in a short period of time, unless there was a major mistake.

But the problem was that many people had already heard that Princess Ankang had made considerable contributions as the Royal Silver and Money Envoy.

Although the money of these royal nobles had become tighter, the royal private treasury had increased several times since Princess Ankang took office.

In the court, some people carefully investigated the expenses of the advance army's expedition, trying to make Emperor Yongyuan sober up and end the conflict with the desert as soon as possible.

As a result, Emperor Yongyuan waved his hand, casually revealed a little confidence in the royal private treasury, and by the way, pushed all the credit to Princess Ankang.

Princess Ankang was established as a positive example of sharing the emperor's worries, in order to criticize the civil officials who had been dragging their feet since the war preparations began.

Emperor Yongyuan and the nobles played a double act, and were embarrassed by the civil officials in the court, but they were not as capable as the twelve-year-old Princess Ankang.

With the help of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' instigation among the people, the prestige of the civil officials was greatly damaged, especially the old faces of several self-proclaimed civil leaders, who were beaten without mercy, and each of them became a stepping stone for Princess Ankang.

Princess Ankang had always been unknown and had a very weak presence. She had only gained some recognition in the palace in the past year.

Now, after this incident, the people in the capital also remembered Princess Ankang's name.

They even used Princess Ankang as an example to criticize those who were just sitting on the throne and doing nothing.

Sanxiao only knew about this because of the report sent by Xiaocui.

Xiaocui spontaneously spread the good things Princess Ankang had done in the West Market.

As an eyewitness, she is the best narrator.

Xiao Cui started by saying that she and her grandfather were rescued by Princess Ankang, and then she talked about how Princess Ankang punished the magistrate of Chang'an and dismissed him from office and exiled him.

As the pace of the people's stories got bigger and bigger, Princess Ankang established a good image among the people.

More and more stories about Princess Ankang were circulated in the streets and alleys.

Some people said that the Red Scarf Team was established by Princess Ankang.

Others said that Princess Ankang was the mastermind behind the Jinpeng Dynasty scam.

There were all kinds of things, some good and some bad, but they were all serious.

Gradually, the nobles in the palace also got a lot of news.

At least, they were convinced that Princess Ankang made a lot of money for the royal private treasury.

Because many of their families were victims of the incident.

When it comes to the antiques of the Jinpeng Dynasty, few people are not angry.

There must be many people who secretly have evil thoughts, after all, they are all people who are used to being arrogant in the capital.

But after checking, they all stopped.

At this point, the nobles in the imperial garden no longer dared to ignore Princess Ankang's presence, and instead glared at her.

Li Xuan looked at these people who dared to be angry but not to speak, and he couldn't help but feel happy.

"Oh, now everyone knows that my little girl is pretty?"

Looking at these people who were about to stare their eyes out, Li Xuan said in his heart.